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Word For The Day, Thursday, Rocktober 9, 2008 - tautology
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| 9 October 2008
| secret garden
Posted on 10/09/2008 6:01:23 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
tautology, [taw-tol-uh-jee], noun
1. needless repetition of an idea, esp. in words other than those of the immediate context, without imparting additional force or clearness, as in “widow woman.”
2. an instance of such repetition.
3. Logic. a. a compound propositional form all of whose instances are true, as “A or not A.”
b. an instance of such a form, as “This candidate will win or will not win.”
Example sentence:
Taranto's Best of the Web always includes News of the Tautological.
Etymology:
Origin: 1579, from L.L. tautologia "representation of the same thing" (c.350), from Gk. tautologia, from tautologos "repeating what has been said," from tauto "the same" + -logos "saying," related to legein "to say".
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Threads:Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
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To: secret garden
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:03:17 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Clinging bitterly to religion and guns. My Bible cover has a holster on the back.)
To: secret garden; Fierce Allegiance; JoanVarga; Jack Deth; K4Harty; miskie; Dutchgirl; cardinal4; ...
Rise and shine and engage in tautological references of the Ayers/Nobama association. You cannot make this point enough since the MSM wants to sweep it under the rug, along with all the ACORN abuses.
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:03:20 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: secret garden
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:04:40 AM PDT
by
CPOSharky
(Blaming CO2 for global warming is like blaming your thermometer for your kid's fever.)
To: secret garden
Hah! In before the ping!
Smart Doctor. Isn’t that a tautology? Or is it an oxymoron?
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:04:42 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Clinging bitterly to religion and guns. My Bible cover has a holster on the back.)
To: CholeraJoe
IBTP!
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:04:42 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: secret garden
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:05:13 AM PDT
by
patton
(cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
To: CPOSharky
A for you!
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:05:23 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: secret garden
9
posted on
10/09/2008 6:05:49 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: patton
Howdy stranger!
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:06:23 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: CholeraJoe
i think Doctor Quack is the tautology ; )
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:06:44 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: secret garden
without imparting additional force or clearnessYou mean like Democratic Party Corruption? Or Media Bias?
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:06:54 AM PDT
by
capydick
("History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid".)
To: secret garden
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:08:11 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: CholeraJoe
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:08:33 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: xsmommy
She is a wacky one, in her personal life, but a really good writer. I think she may have a crush on Sarah.
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:10:25 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: xsmommy
Aflac!
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:10:48 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Clinging bitterly to religion and guns. My Bible cover has a holster on the back.)
To: capydick
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:10:58 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: CholeraJoe
how cleverly you wove all of that together including an insurance angle... : )
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:11:39 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
To: xsmommy
AIG considered buying advertisements to explain its position, only to be told by public relations consultant George Sard that it would be "a really bad idea."
Do they have monkeys running the show at AIG now? How stupid can one company be about PR? A+ for you.
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posted on
10/09/2008 6:12:50 AM PDT
by
secret garden
(Dubiety reigns here)
To: tioga
ti, did you know camile was from up in your neck o the woods?
As someone whose first seven years were spent among Italian-American immigrants (I never met an elderly person who spoke English until we moved from Endicott to rural Oxford, New York, when I was in first grade),
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10/09/2008 6:13:39 AM PDT
by
xsmommy
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